Re:IBM is splitting itself into two public companies
by jacquesm on Thursday October 08, 2020 @01:35PM
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That's roughly how I feel at times about our society as a whole. We went up for 56 years and we've been going down for the last 19.
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Re:IBM is splitting itself into two public companies
by WJW on Thursday October 08, 2020 @01:48PM
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Weirdly, I feel about the same but the downgoing part only started around 2015. We met once at a company you were doing due diligence at, so I happen to know that you are about 15 years older than me. Maybe it's just an age thing and we're getting grumpy? :)
After all, complaining about the state of the world decaying goes back to at least the ancient Greeks.
Re:IBM is splitting itself into two public companies
by jacquesm on Thursday October 08, 2020 @01:50PM
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Yes, but from the perspective of those Greeks they were dead on! But good point about grumpy old people :)
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Re:IBM is splitting itself into two public companies
by the-dude on Thursday October 08, 2020 @02:25PM
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Were you thinking about Plato or Socrates?
Apparently, both didn't say this : https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehave/
Re:IBM is splitting itself into two public companies
by WJW on Thursday October 08, 2020 @03:11PM
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I was thinking of one of those, it's a shame they apparently did not say it. However, I recently learned that the Torah apparently also claims that each generation is more degenerate than the last so perhaps I can fall back onto that :)